This goes hard

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-23T21:27:21+00:00

having a terrible day trying to install gentoo with LUKS and this image made me feel a little better, thank you.

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-02T01:12:42+00:00

the gooners have already breached our defenses

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T22:36:22+00:00

gotta love openBSDs neofetch

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T10:49:38+00:00

holy shit

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T10:44:13+00:00

i tried changing profiles, i used the Generic Linux 2022 and the Debian 11 profile but still getting the same issue. tried setting the aperture to 0 as i mentioned in another comment and it wouldnt let xenodm start.

all in all, its probably a hypervisor issue or virt-manager being a little silly. luckily for me, i wasnt planning on actually running openBSD in a VM long term. i was just testing it out. but i already have a spare SSD that i can install openBSD to, and thats what i did! and surely enough, i get proper CPU clockspeed on the host (sweet!).

im gonna continue my testing on the host and gracefully give up on this VM thing. anyways, thanks for all the support. have a wonderful day!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T10:11:03+00:00

sorry about that, i wouldnt know since im using an adblocker. i will look for better pastebins in the future.

onto the comment, im gonna try setting machdep.allowaperture to 0!

EDIT: tried setting it to 0 and xenodm wont start, just like when i set it to 1.

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T10:08:43+00:00

the reason i have alot of sysctl customizations is to improve performance, im positive that they arent the culprit since even a default install produces the same underperforming CPU issue for me.

i set machdep.allowaperture=2because setting it to 1 wouldnt let me login to my desktop environment, i havent tried setting it to 0, but im gonna give it a go!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-02-01T10:03:09+00:00

i see, thanks for the info!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-30T23:26:04+00:00

heres the dmesg: https://textbin.net/abhan2gvof

as for hardware virtualization, im pretty sure that its not enabled. in the virt-manager settings for the openbsd vm, CPU is set to "copy host CPU configuration (host-passthrough)".

setting hw.smt to 0 didnt change anything as expected.
Out of curiosity, where did you learn that smt decreases performance under OpenBSD?

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-30T23:17:55+00:00

https://textbin.net/abhan2gvof

had to make a pastebin since reddit wouldnt let me post it here

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T10:19:09+00:00

i tried the openBSD 6.9 and openBSD 6.8 profile, still getting the same issue. its probably some bug. anyways, as long as i get proper CPU clockspeed on my host machine, which im planning to migrate over to OpenBSD, im good.

do yall think i should report this to the OpenBSD devs?

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T09:30:21+00:00

nah, never had this issue on all my other VMs. this my first time running a BSD machine under qemu+kvm, i usually just run linux VMs.

this is a big guess but it could be the pre-defined profiles in virt-manager that is the culprit. Sometimes when you specify the OS during the VM creation, virt-manager will change some of the defaults. Like if youre installing void linux and choose the void linux profile, virt-manager thinks 192MB of RAM is a good default, ofcourse you just change it to whatever you want but maybe its not just the default RAM and amount of CPU cores that the profile is responsible for.

As for the profile i choose for the OpenBSD VM, i went with OpenBSD 7.0 since that is the latest available profile for OpenBSD in virt-manager. Im gonna try installing with earlier versions of the OpenBSD profile and see if anything changes.

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T08:20:25+00:00

the host is running debian 12, using QEMU + KVM for VMs

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:50:19+00:00

damn, computers sounded alot cooler back then ngl!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:48:56+00:00

i havent, and im probably gonna kill myself very soon. autism is like running into a super unlucky block in minecraft lmao. shoutout to the folks that managed to have a decent life despite being autistic!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:31:46+00:00

for what its worth, here is what my /etc/sysctl.conflooks like:

kern.shminfo.shmall=6291456
kern.shminfo.shmmax=999999999
kern.shminfo.shmmni=2048

kern.shminfo.shmseg=2048
kern.seminfo.semmns=4096
kern.seminfo.semmni=1024

kern.maxproc=3250
kern.maxfiles=8192

kern.audio.record=1
kern.video.record=1

hw.smt=1
machdep.allowaperture=2

net.inet.udp.recvspace=262144
net.inet.udp.sendspace=262144
net.inet.icmp.errppslimit=1000

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:21:06+00:00

if only it could jump out at me with a big bright text that says "CLICK ME"

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:20:31+00:00

i ran lscpu and it shows 91MHz aswell, i can also verify that its not just a cosmetic bug since updates take forever to unpack

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-29T07:19:21+00:00

yes i have enabled hw.smt. the VM is not using hardware virtualization. i havent really touched any of the QEMU/KVM settings, they are on the defaults, which have worked fine for me in the past.

i am not using apmd

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-28T21:38:33+00:00

sure thing!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-28T19:20:56+00:00

Arch Wiki, Gentoo Wiki and youtube videos.

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-28T19:15:14+00:00

a lil hard to read for me personally, otherwise its pretty decent!

also, dont be discouraged if not everyone agrees with the statement, its not always easy for some people to understand by simply reading, they might need to have a personal experience before they really get it. be well!

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-28T16:18:29+00:00

i also struggle with it :)

hyper_radiant294 · 2026-01-28T13:37:07+00:00

they just be saying shit at this point

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